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LibGDX Game Development By Example

By : James Cook
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LibGDX Game Development By Example

By: James Cook

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LibGDX Game Development By Example
James Cook
Aug, 2015 | 280 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
LibGDX Game Development By Example
LibGDX Game Development By Example
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting to Know LibGDX
Getting to Know LibGDX
Introducing LibGDX
Setting up LibGDX
Creating a project
Importing a project
Summary
2
Let's Get These Snakes Out of This Book!
Let's Get These Snakes Out of This Book!
Why Snake?
Game update cycle
Introducing Sammy the snake
Moving Sammy the snake
Adding the apple
Increasing the length of the snake
Summary
3
Making That Snake Slick
Making That Snake Slick
Introducing the ShapeRenderer class
More on collisions
The state of the game
High scores
Handling different screen sizes
Summary
4
What the Flap Is the Hype About?
What the Flap Is the Hype About?
Why Flappy Bird?
The project setup
Creating Flappee Bee
Collisions
Adding textures and animations
GUI creation with Scene2D
The Start screen and disposal
Summary
5
Making Your Bird More Flightworthy
Making Your Bird More Flightworthy
Let's load up them assets!
Packing textures
I need a Hiero!
Summary
6
Onto the Next Platform...Game
Onto the Next Platform...Game
Why and what is a platformer?
Game reuse
Tile maps – mapping all over the world!
Introducing Pete
Collision detection
Adding a collectable
Summary
7
Extending the Platform
Extending the Platform
Increasing the level
Let's make some noise
Summary
8
Why Are All the Birds Angry?
Why Are All the Birds Angry?
The what, why, and how of Angry Birds
Setting up LibGDX with Box2D
Nutty Birds
Summary
9
Even Angrier Birds!
Even Angrier Birds!
The how, what, and why of object pools
Hey, look at all these acorns!
Summary
10
Exporting Our Games to the Platforms
Exporting Our Games to the Platforms
Using all the platforms
Looking closer – Android
Looking closer – iOS
Looking closer – HTML
Summary
11
Third-party Services
Third-party Services
How to use platform-dependent libraries
Keeping it cross-platform friendly
Summary
Index
Index

Chapter 3. Making That Snake Slick

In this chapter, we will take our Snake project further towards being a complete game. This will include more on collisions, restarting the game, and maintaining a high score. You will also learn how to use LibGDX to help in making it easier to debug your game along with how to handle multiple screen sizes.

The following will be covered in this chapter:

  • Introducing the ShapeRenderer class

  • More on collisions

  • Game state

  • High score

  • Handling different screen sizes

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